html geeks.

interviews done: check
transcriptions done: check
introduction done: check
web page design: in progress

yes. this is as well one of my favorite parts of the project. the interviewing was fun, the transcription was long and the introduction was brief, but i am an html geek, as Ethan would say. i love to play around online and create websites and work on backgrounds and images and slideshows and the list goes on and on... so i'm ready to finish up the website, make it to our liking and get working on this presentation.

i must say, its kind of sad to see the class rolling to an end, but at the same time, the stressful points are past and time to move on. hopefully we can all agree on how we want to present.

otherwise, we'll see what happens next week....

Pranayama.. the art of breathing.

After Tuesdays class I felt quite discouraged. I had been looking forward to creating the website, but techinical difficulties got the best of me, not to mention I realized I hadn't the faintest idea of how to make anything actually look like I wanted it to... what is the deal with the fact that there are only ten fonts to choose from... how do you make a border... can I just draw my own border... other websites have cool fonts, I would settle for Bradley Hand... can I edit myself out of photographs... uploading audio? I think one of my organs just protruded from its surrounding wall.
So, I guess stressed would be the word? I did yoga, but found that drinking some wine and eating a pint of icecream while holding a dance party all by myself in the kitchen was what really helped; though, I still can't moon walk.
I went to vist with Carol and Lynn today and we commiserated on the daunting aspect of public presentations. I am not even adequate when it comes to one on one social situations... Crystal Iam glad you are my partner. When I stop making sentences, I have faith you will shove me into the corner and dazzle the audience with your smile.
Still, I am sure that out of several hundred colors I will find one that suits me. Font is not everything. Remembering to breathe is everything so I am just going to concentrate on that.

welcome to HTML airlines

Okay so we have finally arrived to the part of this whole project that I have been waiting so eagerly for, finally putting everything into a web based document! now I realise that this was not the fun part for some or even most of the class but I enjoy doing HTML and other web based activities. And although it seemed like I was not being a helpful co-pilot with the touching of the key board but both Cashéa and I are "web nuts" as I told Ethan during class, and we both understand the language of HTML to a degree of where; if we had lost power to one of our engines it would have been corrected and back online with the help of the other pilot. So right now we are at the point of where we have every thing we need formatted, and with a few editing of time stamps to match up with the new edited audio we should be ready to fly.

Contextualizing seems less scary now

For some unknown reason I was having a terrible time last week trying to work on the contextualization (is that a word?) of our interview. Last Thursday I (seriously) worked on it for four hours, then got up the next day at around 4:30--because I couldn't sleep-- and worked on it for another three hours. And, would you know, I got ABSOLUTELY NOTHING written...! I think that I live too much in my head? Anyways, that was quite frustrating.

Sunday rolled around, and I figured that I'd better get to work on it then. So right after breakfast, I sat down at one of the computers in the CRC and put my nose to the grindstone as the saying goes. And it worked; I don't know why, but it did. It just goes to show how big of a role mindset plays in success.

Anyways, with that over with, I can start to consider the next phase of the project-- the website. I sincerely hope that there will be people to help us (or at least those of us who are feeling lost), because I have a suspicion that most of the stuff that Ethan explained went right over my head... Ah well, I'm sure it will work out in the end.